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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 12 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Acts 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/11.htm" title="Acts 11">◄</a> Acts 12 <a href="../acts/13.htm" title="Acts 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/acts/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">James Is Killed and Peter Is Imprisoned</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>About that time King Herod Agrippa<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> began to persecute some believers in the church. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He had the apostle James (John’s brother) killed with a sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When Herod saw how much this pleased the Jewish people, he also arrested Peter. (This took place during the Passover celebration.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then he imprisoned him, placing him under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring Peter out for public trial after the Passover. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very earnestly for him.</p><p class="hdg">Peter’s Miraculous Escape from Prison</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel struck him on the side to awaken him and said, “Quick! Get up!” And the chains fell off his wrists. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the angel told him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” And he did. “Now put on your coat and follow me,” the angel ordered.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Peter left the cell, following the angel. But all the time he thought it was a vision. He didn’t realize it was actually happening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They passed the first and second guard posts and came to the iron gate leading to the city, and this opened for them all by itself. So they passed through and started walking down the street, and then the angel suddenly left him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Peter finally came to his senses. “It’s really true!” he said. “The Lord has sent his angel and saved me from Herod and from what the Jewish leaders<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> had planned to do to me!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When he realized this, he went to the home of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many were gathered for prayer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He knocked at the door in the gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to open it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that, instead of opening the door, she ran back inside and told everyone, “Peter is standing at the door!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“You’re out of your mind!” they said. When she insisted, they decided, “It must be his angel.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Peter continued knocking. When they finally opened the door and saw him, they were amazed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He motioned for them to quiet down and told them how the Lord had led him out of prison. “Tell James and the other brothers what happened,” he said. And then he went to another place.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>At dawn there was a great commotion among the soldiers about what had happened to Peter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Herod Agrippa ordered a thorough search for him. When he couldn’t be found, Herod interrogated the guards and sentenced them to death. Afterward Herod left Judea to stay in Caesarea for a while.</p><p class="hdg">The Death of Herod Agrippa</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they sent a delegation to make peace with him because their cities were dependent upon Herod’s country for food. The delegates won the support of Blastus, Herod’s personal assistant, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and an appointment with Herod was granted. When the day arrived, Herod put on his royal robes, sat on his throne, and made a speech to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The people gave him a great ovation, shouting, “It’s the voice of a god, not of a man!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Meanwhile, the word of God continued to spread, and there were many new believers.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When Barnabas and Saul had finished their mission to Jerusalem, they returned,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> taking John Mark with them.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Herod the king.</span><span class="ft"> He was the nephew of Herod Antipas and a grandson of Herod the Great.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">the days of unleavened bread.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Jewish people.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">mission, they returned to Jerusalem.</span><span class="ft"> Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">mission, they returned from Jerusalem;</span><span class="ft"> still others read </span><span class="it">mission, they returned from Jerusalem to Antioch.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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